Irish Whitewater Forum

If we know of similar weirs should these be identified and kept as a database on the site? In otherwords man made weirs with no natural outflow.

7.2 Prior to all river trips, a risk assessment should be carried out by walking the
bank over the full distance of the proposed route prior to embarkation and
noting the effect of recent rainfall on the section to be travelled.

I don't think this recomendation is practical, in many cases there ...

Comreg have a function for coverage http://www.askcomreg.ie/mobile/coverage.44.LE.asp
There are few others that give coverage maps http://www.mobileworldlive.com/
Most of our networks claim a 99% population coverage with a 95% geographic coverage. I've spent alot of my time doing field work in ...

Where: Meet-up at Dartry Park (Dodder Road - off the Milltown Road), Milltown - ten minutes walk from the Clonskeagh Road gate UCD.

What time: 11 am, Saturday, 30th April.

The course:

Team One: Will head upriver towards Rathfarnham Road Bridge and collect up until the River Cottages (about 200 m ...

Okay bad news first, paddling in Ireland is a winter sport or more correctly it needs to be raining. Playboating wise there is the sluice in Lucan http://www.irishwhitewater.com/river_guide/river.php?id=246#in_sluice.

Great outdoors and I-canoe do boat demos. I-Canoe is located next to a canal so ...

Dru Marsh in UCD is in charge of this baby, you can contact him on dru.marsh<at>ucd.ie since I'm down the country most of the time at present.

When: Saturday 30th April, 11 am until 2 pm.
Where: The Dodder River near UCD (meet at the Clonskeagh Gate)
Who: Anyone! Feel free to invite others.
What to bring: Gloves, protective clothes, sturdy boots ... people with waders most welcome!

This is being run in conection with An Taisce's spring ...

This is a follow on from the college and whitewater topic. I had talks with alot of people in Kerry and over the last few months with Benny, UCD's sports and safety office. One idea that was propossed was a college safety weekend. I have sent out a proposal to the colleges sports offices and to the ...

Second largest paddling competition in the country and the largest multi-discipline, it is also one of the best chances to get as many students together as possible. Any competition/event/training booth would have to designed to support best practice, any plan would be made to do the same and it is ...

Noticed that Seanie had changed the video to a different link, so I got to see the original video. Scary to watch, good for training anyway.

To the off topic part yes we've had that problem for years since 2001 we've had to hire level 3 instructors. At first it's hard because you've none in club after a while you can train up people especially if they see it as a means of making a few squid. The reason for it is purely a cover your ass ...

I like the idea of the competition for varsities but the weekend does lack the time, we toyed with the idea of bank based rescue games to keep people entertained as an option. While I think it would be a good idea and has been included by trinity in their varsities and Cork some years before that ...

It all depends how you define the terms:
Skill = natural talent or Skill = learned technique or Skill = learned technique times practice (It's not practice that makes perfect, it's perfect practice makes perfect) I argue for the third definition

Experience = time paddling not lenght of time in the ...